Acknowledgments

We would like to thank our family, friends, and coworkers for their support and advice, for being there when we needed someone to listen to half-formed ideas, and for understanding when we said “I’d love to, but I have to work on the book.” The chapters covering the XNA Framework would have been impossible to write without advice and debugging from Trystan Binkley-Jones.

Of course none of this would have been possible without Microsoft and the support they provide to the development community. In particular, we would like to thank Cliff Simpkins for providing hub screenshots and a developer phone complete with a pre-release version of Windows Phone 7.5.

We would like to thank the following reviewers, who read the manuscript at various stages during development and provided invaluable feedback: ‘Anil’ Radhakrishna, Berndt Hamboeck, Dave Campbell, Francesco Goggi, Jedidja Bourgeois, Lester Lobo, Loïc Simon, Mark Monster, Nishant Sivakumar, Scott Turner, Steve Grey-Wilson, and Vipul Patel. Special thanks to Richard Reukema for his careful technical proofread of the manuscript shortly before it went into production.

Finally, our thanks to everyone at Manning, especially Marjan Bace, Michael Stephens, and our development editor Jeff Bleiel, as well as our production team of Benjamin Berg, Melody Dolab, Dennis Dalinnik, Janet Vail, and Mary Piergies. Your guidance and support during the writing and production process were much appreciated.